El Concejo de la Ciudad de Seattle inicia el proceso de expropiación con el fin de adquirir los terrenos para el futuro Seward Park el 10 de mayo de 1909.

  • By Cassandra Tate
  • Posted 9/05/2010
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El 10 de mayo de 1909, el Concejo de la Ciudad de Seattle aprueba un pedido de la Junta de Comisionados de Parques para iniciar los procedimientos de adquisición de la Península Bailey –lugar del futuro Seward Park– mediante expropiación. La ciudad y los propietarios de los terrenos habían comenzado a negociar una venta en 1908, pero no habían podido llegar a un acuerdo con respecto al precio. Al expropiar los terrenos, la ciudad ejerció su derecho a reclamar la propiedad a través del principio de dominio eminente (el poder de un gobierno de adquirir propiedad privada para fines públicos), siendo el precio determinado por un tasador independiente actuando como tercero.


Sources:

"Request of Park Board Trustees for Condemnation of Bailey Peninsula for Park Purposes" (filed April 30, 1909, No. 36749), "Report of Corporation Counsel in Regard to Bailey Peninsula" (filed March 31, 1910, No. 40560); "Communication from Park Board in Regard to Condemnation of Bailey Peninsula" (filed June 20, 1910, No. 40770), and "Request of Board of Park Commissioners that City Council Pass an Ordinance Condemning Certain Property in Maynard’s Lake Washington Addition for Opening Up a Street from Mt. Baker Park to Bailey Peninsula" (filed December 31, 1910, No. 42416), Comptroller/Clerk Files, City Documents Collection, Seattle Municipal Archives, Seattle; Kathy Mulady, "City Celebrates Park Pioneer Olmsted," Seattle Post Intelligencer, April 2, 2003 (www.seattlepi.com); Donald Sherwood, "Seward Park -- History," December 3, 1973, in Sherwood Park History Files, Seattle Parks and Recreation website accessed September 2010 (http://www.seattle.gov/PARKS/history/sherwood.htm); Paul Talbert, "The History of Seward Park," Seattle Friends of Seward Park website accessed September 2010 (www.sewardpark.org).


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